me
since, as if she lived again in me; but not always,--only at times,--and
then I feel borne up as if I could do anything in the world. I had a
feeling as if she were my guardian and protector.

"It seems to me that these, and more, whom I have not mentioned, do
really live over some part of their past lives in my life. I do not
understand it all, and perhaps it can be accounted for in some way I
have not thought of. I write it down as nearly as I can give it from
memory, by request, and if it is printed at this time had rather have
all the real names withheld.

"MYRTLE HAZARD."

NOTE BY THE FRIEND.

"This statement must be accounted for in some way, or pass into the
category of the supernatural. Probably it was one of those intuitions,
with objective projection, which sometimes come to imaginative young
persons, especially girls, in certain exalted nervous conditions. The
study of the portraits, with the knowledge of some parts of the history
of the persons they represented, and the consciousness of instincts
inherited in all probability from these same ancestors, formed the basis
of Myrtle's 'Vision.' The lives of our progenitors are, as we know,
reproduced in different proportions in ourselves. Whether they as
individuals have any consciousness of it, is another matter. It is
possible that they do get a second as it were fractional life in us. It
might seem that many of those whose blood flows in our veins struggle
for the mastery, and by and by one or more get the predominance, so that
we grow to be like father, or mother, or remoter ancestor, or two
or more are blended in us, not to the exclusion, however, it must be
understood, of a special personality of our own, about which these
others are grouped. Independently of any possible scientific value,
this 'Vision' serves to illustrate the above-mentioned fact of common
experience, which is not sufficiently weighed by most moralists.

"How much it may be granted to certain young persons to see, not in
virtue of their intellectual gifts, but through those direct channels
which worldly wisdom may possibly close to the luminous influx, each
reader must determine for himself by his own standards of faith and
evidence.

"One statement of the narrative admits of a simple natural explanation,
which does not allow the lovers of the marvellous to class it with the
quasi-miraculous appearance seen by Colonel Gardiner, and given in
full by Dr. Doddridge in his Life